{"id":1234,"date":"2025-03-17T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/2025\/03\/17\/bislett-games-sold-out-we-are-adding-an-extra-day\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:24:30","slug":"bislett-games-sold-out-we-are-adding-an-extra-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/bislett-games-sold-out-we-are-adding-an-extra-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bislett Games Sold Out &#8211; We Are Adding an Extra Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">As a result of this, and the fact that Norway now has many fantastic athletes in events not part of the Diamond League program, Bislettalliansen has decided to extend the event with an additional day.<br \/> The legendary strawberry festival, always held the day before the event, will be moved to the inner field at Bislett Stadium, becoming &#8220;The People\u2019s Strawberry Festival.&#8221; This will be followed by live sports with international participants.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">This is the schedule for &#8220;Bislett Games Day 1 &#8211; The Strawberry Festival&#8221; on Wednesday, June 11:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">In traditional fashion, the strawberry festival will begin with presentations and interviews with some of the biggest stars. But this time, it will take place from the inner field at Bislett Stadium. Among those participating will be Mondo Duplantis, Karsten Warholm, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Olympic 100-meter champion for women, Julien Alfred.<br \/> &#8220;This will be a great opportunity for everyone who hasn\u2019t been able to get a ticket for the Oslo Bislett Games the next day to see and hear the biggest stars. To create the true strawberry festival atmosphere, we\u2019ll treat everyone who comes to a free cup of strawberries,&#8221; says Hoen.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">He adds that the gates will open at 18:30, and the event itself will run from 19:00 to 21:00, with ticket sales for this event starting today (March 17).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">&#8220;We hope as many people as possible will come the day before the big day, as we have an exciting sports menu that we will continue to develop in the coming weeks,&#8221; he says.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">What is confirmed so far includes the following:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-left:8px\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Olympic decathlon champion Markus Rooth and European indoor heptathlon champion Sander Aae Skotheim will compete as a Norwegian team against Switzerland, with Simon Ehammer, and Estonia, with Johannes Erm, in a national team competition in the triathlon.<br \/> \tThe long jump will be held during the strawberry festival on Wednesday, June 11, while the 110 meter hurdles and javelin will be part of the Oslo Bislett Games on Thursday, June 12.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left:8px\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">European half-marathon champion from Rome last summer, Karoline Bjerkeli Gr\u00f8vdal, will attempt to break Ingrid Kristiansen\u2019s legendary Norwegian record of 30:13.74 in the 10,000 meters, which was a world record when it was set in 1986. Another athlete ready to compete here is the Dutch silver medalist in the 10,000 meters from the European Championships in Rome last summer, Diane van Es. She also holds the European record for the 5,000 meters road race.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left:8px\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Norwegian hammer throwers Eivind Henriksen and Thomas Mardal will also have the opportunity to showcase their skills on this day against parts of the world elite.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left:8px\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">There will also be a 100 meters featuring the world\u2019s fastest para-athletes in any category. Here, Salum Kashafali will face off against the fastest para-athletes in several other classes than the ones he normally competes against.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">&#8220;The rest of the program will be finalized in the coming weeks and launched gradually as it becomes clear,&#8221; concludes Hoen.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Program:<\/span><\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;<br \/> <span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">18:30-19:00: Pre-program<br \/> 19:00-19:30: Interviews from the inner field<br \/> 19:30-21:00: Main event<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Aptos&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Ticket sales open today (Monday, March 17).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oslo Bislett Games \/ Wanda Diamond League on Thursday, June 12, is almost sold out.<br...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oslo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}